Decadal trend in agricultural abandonment and woodland expansion in an agro-pastoral transition band in Northern China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Chao ^a   Gao, Qiong ^a   Wang, Xian ^a   Yu, Mei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CROPLAND; FOREST; FORESTRY; GRASS; GRASSLAND; IMAGING; K NEAREST NEIGHBOR; KAPPA STATISTICS; LANDSCAPE; PASTURE; RANDOM FOREST; SAMPLE SIZE; SCRUB; SOIL EROSION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; UNCERTAINTY; URBANIZATION; WOODY PLANT; AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; HERBIVORY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; TREE; TRENDS;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BAYES THEOREM; CHINA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GEOGRAPHY; HERBIVORY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TIME FACTORS; TREES; UNCERTAINTY; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84955463466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142113     Document Type: Article

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